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  6. Modern/Avant New Releases: A running thread

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    3 minutes ago, Д.Д. said:

    Well Sir, you got all the Butcher duds, as far as I am concerned.        

    Well that makes me feel a whole lot better...

     

    17 minutes ago, Steve Reynolds said:

    I love Butcher with North by Northwest, with Red Trio and really with any great bassist & drummer. I saw him solo once and I’m just not a fan of solo saxophone 

     

    Yeah, I forgot the Red Trio (great trio) collaborations. I have 'Empire'.

  8. Vinny Golia

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    Yes, I think i can hear how the layers will reveal themselves over time. There's lots going on.

    Thanks for the recommendations, I have 'Facts Of Their Own Lives' and my enjoyment of that helped prompt the purchase of the 3LP set. 

    I can safely say I've never seen a Golia CD in a shop in the UK, except maybe the Clean Feeds.

  9. Modern/Avant New Releases: A running thread

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    2 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

    He seems to have decided that his future lies in humiliating himself with vanity gigs. I've got friends who are active in extreme metal circles in London and they are having to put up with much the same from him in their chosen genres. 

    Now I like SY as much as the next person and more than many and I thought this might be an interesting experience to see how Thurston interacted with such high calibre improvisors. Well, he decided to just play very loudly over them for the entire gig.  No concept of listening whatsoever.  A shame and a missed opportunity.

     

  10. Modern/Avant New Releases: A running thread

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    1 minute ago, Rabshakeh said:

    On Butcher, I'm not sure that solo Butcher is necessarily leagues away from group Butcher - there's just more of him to enjoy. 

    13 Friendly Numbers and Fixations (14) are good ones to try.

    The thrill of his playing for me is mostly down to how advanced his technical thinking is - he has all the techniques, emotion and range available to Parker etc., but with a really developed approach to feedback, miking and use of the physical space that he is playing in (presumably an influence from Alvin Lucier). I sometimes feel that the field of free improv is a little overfull, but he is one player who always stands out as attempting and achieving something different.

    Thanks. I'll investigate those two.

    I hear all that but what I never get beyond is the technique.  I find him a very cold player but that's just how I hear it, I appreciate that.

  13. So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

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    30 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

    Cassandra Wilson "Songs" Verve CD.  I have all but one of these on Winter&Winter cds of Cassandra's, but this is a nicely sequenced compilation I enjoy listening to. 

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    That was a very nice run of albums but on JMT rather than Winter&Winter, no?

    Five years since her last release too. Too long.

    Edit to add: reissues of JMT titles were on Winter&Winter, apologies. Stefan Winter ran both labels I think

  14. Vinny Golia

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    Compositions For Large Ensemble.  Purchase prompted by this thread and I have to say that first acquaintance is very positive.  Some great playing over the three LPs.  The compositions are strong too, not just vehicles for blowing.  I think it will repay closer attention over repeated listens.

  15. Modern/Avant New Releases: A running thread

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    I've been following tis discussion with interest and now decide to add my ha'porth.

    I've seen Shipp a few times too and enjoyed every occasion to varying degrees.  The one that I enjoyed the least was his contributions to the David S. Ware Quartet, Susie Ibarra was the star of that evening.  I was transfixed by a solo performance in a steaming hot Red Rose Club.  Duo with Perelman was excellent and better than the couple of recordings I've heard. But the best was either with Dunmall/Edwards/Sanders at Oto where they took the roof off - I do recognise Steve's description of Dunmall not getting as much space as elsewhere but that didn't dampen my enthusiasm - or the other cracking performance was with Evan Parker and Spring Hell Jack where Shipp played organ and they just grooved like the grooviest thing.

    I used to listen to his recordings a lot but found there became too many to keep up with (and tihs was before the Perelman duos) and too similar so I stopped bothering.  I get the overly dramatic embellishment observation too. Sometimes I quite liked that, not always. He's a musician who I suddenly remember and revisit on occasion, no longer someone that I follow  for every new release.

    Now, John Butcher. He presents me with a conundrum in that everything about my listening tastes suggest I should lap up his recordings but somehow I've never found one that truly grips me.  I do keep trying and only last month bought the duet with McPhee and the one with Akio Suzuki, both of which i've enjoyed for the first couple of listens, the Suzuki the more so. I have duets with Hemingway and Paal Nilsson-Love and North By Northwest all of which have sat undisturbed on my shelves for a long time. My favourite has been a Clean Feed called 'A Brush With Dignity'.  I need to revisit. 

    Interestingly, given what you've both said about his solo work I don't have any recordings.  Also, I've only ever seen him perform twice, once with sanders which was very good and partially released on Emanem. The other is a best forgotten mismatch with Sanders, Edwards and Thurston Moore the latter of whom just musically embarrassed himself to my ears.

    So in conclusion, I need to investigate solo Butcher more. Suggestions?

  23. Happy 80th Birthday, Gary Bartz!

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    On 27/09/2020 at 1:16 PM, bresna said:

    I've actually been able to see Bartz perform live a lot more in the past 8 years than I had in previous 25. For some reason, he just didn't seem to come through Boston at the right time. Great player. His 2012 release, "Coltrane Rules (Tao Of A Music Warrior) is a great record. I can't believe he's 80.

    I didn't know this album. Listening now and it's very good. Thanks for posting about it.

    4 hours ago, felser said:

    Still my very favorite Bartz release, and still no CD reissue (how did OJC overlook it?).  Also excellent Woody Shaw on this one:

    Gary Bartz Ntu Troop - Home! (1973, Vinyl) | Discogs

    👍🏼👍🏼Love that one. I think I may have bought after reading about it here a few years ago

  24. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

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    Today...

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    The Vinny Golia Large Ensemble - Facts Of Their Own Lives [Nine Winds] limbering up for the imminent arrival of the 3LP set

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    Beaver Harris 360 Degree Experience - A Well Kept Secret [Shemp]

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    Barefield/Holland/Tabbal Trio - Transdimensional Space Window [Trans African Records]  It's a lot better than the cover suggests.

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    Anteloper - Tour Beats, volume 1 [International Anthem]

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    Joshua Abrams - Magnetoception [Eremite] not noticed previously that this isn't credited to The Natural Information Society, only the latter ones in the series are. but what a series and band/concept.

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